#ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS PDF 9TH EDITION PROFESSIONAL#
The scientific method soon played a greater role in knowledge creation and it was not until the 19th century that many of the institutional and professional features of science began to take shape along with the changing of "natural philosophy" to "natural science". The recovery and assimilation of Greek works and Islamic inquiries into Western Europe from the 10th to 13th century revived " natural philosophy", which was later transformed by the Scientific Revolution that began in the 16th century as new ideas and discoveries departed from previous Greek conceptions and traditions. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Chronology of the universe as deduced by the prevailing Big Bang theory, a result from science and obtained knowledge